AgricUltra
Advancements™
AgricUltra Advancements™ core focus is maximizing facility production of indoor farms while minimizing energy inputs through the design and development of multi-layer grow platforms, expertly engineered inter-canopy management techniques, and advanced LED-based light offerings with a focus on deep UVB+A. We help our clients avoid costly facility systems mistakes with advanced computational fluid design analysis (CFD modeling). Validating concepts and components before any equipment is purchased.
Affiliations
AgricUltra Advancements is a member of The Association for Vertical Farming (AVF); the leading global, non-profit organization that enables international exchange and cooperation in order to accelerate the development of the indoor/vertical farming industry.
We are proud members of The International Association for Plant UV Research, UV4Plants. UV4Plants advances botanical UV research by promoting both academic and commercial collaboration.
AgricUltra Advancements has entered into a research collaboration with Ryerson University and its newly established Ryerson Cannabis Innovation Complex, as well as the Department of Mechanical Engineering, to conduct photobiology research.
Our tenets are simple.
Thinks Plant First™. Every solution begins by considering each plant’s biological requirements above all else.
Plant First™ thinking is reflected in everything we do.
Don’t Fight Physics. This results in higher-efficiency systems.
Four key areas of expertise define our capabilities:
1. Controlled Environment Agriculture: AgricUltra applies its Plant First™ approach towards CEA. Solutions are designed from the plant outward, using CFD analysis to optimize the plants’ micro-environment (temperature, humidity, air movement, and CO2). This approach allows us to control each row independently of any other row and effectively creates a “grow-room” out of each row of every layer, offering the unprecedented ability to manage and balance the operational output of facility to market requirements.
2. Systems Design & Engineering: We design and engineer technology that improves indoor crop quality, fidelity and yield while offering refined environmental control suitable for academic study and industrial growing at scale.
3. CFD Analysis: Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Modelling accurately predicts complex interconnected critical parameters such as air velocity, space temperature and stratification, humidity and CO2 distribution to facilitate:
a) Informed decisions during HVAC systems design, integration, and component selection.
b) Validating system designs and components within an HVAC system design before they are purchased and installed.
c) Insight into latent problems in existing grow room and HVAC designs.
4. Photobiology: Light influences the biological processes that govern the chemical expression and crop resilience of plants, microbial death, and pest control. We specialize in ultra-broad spectrum UVB+A+Visible light recipes that:
a) Maximize the chemical expression of plants to improve taste, smell, texture, potency and resilience.
b) Control mold and pests to improve yield, reduce chemical intervention, improve compliance, and allow facilities to operate within a greater margin of safety.